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Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian 最低主音元音还是最高词根?斯洛文尼亚语中的“非宾格”主母音类

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5809

M. Simonović, Petra Mišmaš

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Mechanisms of sub-phonemic change in prescriptive bilingualism: The case of Mexican Plautdietsch 规定性双语中次音位变化的机制:以墨西哥普劳迪契为例

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5744

Roslyn Burns

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Internally-headed and doubly-headed relatives in Japanese -- How are they related to each other? 日语中的内头和双头亲属——它们是如何相互关联的?

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5743

C. Kitagawa, Shigeru Miyagawa

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French missing object constructions 法语缺失宾语结构

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6478

Gabrielle Aguila-Multner, Berthold Crysmann

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Not only size matters: limits to the Law of Three Consonants in French phonology 法语音韵学中三个辅音定律的限制不仅仅是大小问题

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-17 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5882

Benjamin Storme

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Quoi-sluices in French 法语是Quoi-sluices

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-16 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5793

Megan Gotowski

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(In)felicitous use of subjects in Greek and Spanish in monolingual and contact settings 在单语和接触环境中恰当地使用希腊语和西班牙语的主题

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-15 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5812

A. Giannakou, Ioanna Sitaridou

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Two representations of case: Evidence from numerals and relatives 案件的两种表现形式:数字证据和亲属证据

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5822

Anna Grabovac

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DP, NP, or neither? Contours of an unresolved debate DP, NP，还是两者都不是?一场悬而未决的辩论的轮廓

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-11 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.8326

Andreas Blümel, Anke Holler

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Language emergence can take multiple paths: Using motion capture to track axis use in Nicaraguan Sign Language 语言出现可以有多种途径:使用动作捕捉来跟踪尼加拉瓜手语的轴线使用

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-05 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6151

Asha Sato, S. Kirby, M. Flaherty

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